Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game's only touchdown was scored when cornerback Peter Landry put a little touch into his cast-iron hands and intercepted a Nieman pass, running it back 64 yards...
...picnic in costly gold-leafed and painted bamboo sheaths, then nonchalantly flinging them away into the river. But he was no dilettante. Korin's work embraced most mediums, even the decoration of plates, on which he collaborated with his brother Ogata Kenzan to produce works like the hexagonal iron-brown dish bearing a figure of Juro, the dumpy little god of longevity. Korin had an almost miraculous sense of materials; witness his writing box, with a design of irises, pool and bridge. The iris leaves and stems are gold lacquer, the flowers mother-of-pearl inlay, the bridge columns...
...critics to be in a state of decline." So spoke Critic Harold Rosenberg some years ago. There is no doubt that since the middle 1960s, Willem de Kooning has suffered in reputation. As one of the father figures of Abstract Expressionism, he has offended critics who believe in the iron laws of stylistic turnover by outliving his "period." Moreover, it is five years since De Kooning, now 68, produced a show; whatever the celebrated Dutch expatriate (who moved to the U.S. in 1926) might have been doing in his studio at Springs, L.I., was veiled from the public...
...death of Warren Harding, became a textbook case in every hamlet in America. The deepfreezes and minks of Harry Truman's day caused his popularity to plummet to bedrock. And when Bernard Goldfine's rug was found in the living room of Sherman Adams, the White House Iron Man of Dwight Eisenhower's Administration, the national outcry reached such a pitch that Ad ams resigned in something like disgrace...
...book's user can find his way around with the help of the clearest, most informative urban maps this side of France's Michelin guides. He will discover the delicate wrought-iron tracery of Fairmount Park's old bridges, the city's best ice cream stand (Bassett's in Reading Terminal Market), and even a giant automobile crusher on Penrose Avenue. To make sense of the city streets, the book traces Philadelphia's growth from the neat rectangular grid of streets studded with parks laid out by Penn himself in 1622, through later annexations...